To me as an outsider too, it seems one middle path is to pay people doing the work in equity thus gradually diluting away people who left. In the beginning, the

To me as an outsider too, it seems one middle path is to pay people doing the work in equity thus gradually diluting away people who left. In the beginning, the guy who left owns a large piece of a small pie, as time goes they will own smaller and smaller piece of a larger and larger pie.